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Pixelitor Changelog

What's new in Pixelitor 4.3.1

Sep 6, 2023
  • New themes: flat dark, flat light, system
  • UI font type and size in Preferences
  • Support reading WebP files (without ImageMagick)
  • New filters: Abstract Lights, Tile Seamless, Rose, Concentric Shapes, Border Mask
  • Blinds, Checkerboard, Goo and Shapes Grid as separate transition filters
  • Improved filters: Photo Collage, Spheres
  • Snapping to pixel boundaries
  • Layer isolation
  • Crop to content
  • Adjustment layers, layer groups (experimental)
  • Color fill and gradient fill layers are no longer experimental
  • Many smart object improvements (still experimental)
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.3.0 (Apr 15, 2022)

  • Contributions by Anirudh Sharma:
  • New filters: Flow Field, Comic Book
  • Improved filters: Grid, Spiral, Color Wheel, Mirror
  • Area zooming in the Zoom Tool and in the Navigator
  • New UI for "Enlarge Canvas"
  • Tapering and Reverse Tapering strokes
  • Higher undo limit for lightweight changes
  • The beginnings of Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish translations (with contributions by Albano Battistella, Jonas Mohr, Heimen Stoffels)
  • Pixelitor 4.3.0 requires Java 17 or higher
  • The Windows installer includes the required Java, on Windows there's no need anymore to install Java first
  • Support for the TGA and NetPBM file formats
  • ImageMagick-based export/import for all the formats supported by ImageMagick 7
  • SVG export in the Pen Tool and the Render/Shapes filters
  • Erase blending mode
  • Presets for filters, tools, and in other places
  • Curved strokes and angle setting in Auto Paint
  • New filters: Spider Web, Spiral, Grid, Truchet Tiles, Bump Map, Displacement Map
  • Improved filters: Circle to Square, Checker Pattern, Four Color Gradient, Value Noise, Channel Mixer, Threshold, Waves, Marble, Polar Glass Tiles, Starburst, Spiral, Flashlight, Magnify
  • Filter Search
  • Show Last Filter
  • Shape settings in the Shapes Tool
  • Shift-drag creates equally sized shapes in Shapes Tool
  • New options for zooming and panning (in Preferences)
  • Printing
  • Better tool icons on HiDPI screens
  • Optional Operating System file choosers
  • Experimental features:
  • Smart objects, smart filters
  • Color fill layers
  • Gradient fill layers
  • Shape layers
  • Operating System theme
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.2.3 (Dec 11, 2019)

  • Brush outline in the Brush, Eraser, Smudge and Clone Tools
  • Create selection from the text of a text layer
  • Move selection in the Move Tool
  • Copy/paste for selections
  • Selection crop can be nonrectangular (with generated layer masks)
  • "Color randomness" option in the "Spray Shapes Brush"
  • "Image Source" option and Hue/Saturation distances in the "Mask from Color Range"
  • Add layer mask from transparency and from layer contents
  • Chaos Game, Mandelbrot and Julia fractal renderers
  • "Watermarking" option for the Render/Shapes filters
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.2.2 (Oct 11, 2019)

  • Keyboard nudging for the Gradient, Pen, Shapes tools
  • New "Random Chess Piece" and "Random Zodiac Sign" shapes
  • Many bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.2.1 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • Contributions by Łukasz Kurzaj:
  • "Layer Auto Selection" checkbox in the Move Tool
  • Styles and colors for the guides (in the Preferences)
  • Transform mode in the Pen Tool
  • Rotating and resizing shapes in the Shapes Tool
  • "Delete Cropped Pixels" checkbox in the Crop Tool
  • In the Crop Tool, the initial Alt-dragging creates the rectangle from the center
  • File/View Metadata (using the metadata-extractor library)
  • Right-click popup menus on tabs
  • Many bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.2.0 (Oct 4, 2018)

  • Contributions by Łukasz Kurzaj:
  • New "Curves" filter
  • New composition guides in the Crop Tool: golden spiral, triangles, grid
  • Tabbed user interface (it's optional, the old internal windows are still available in the Preferences)
  • New Pen Tool
  • Handles in the Gradient Tool
  • Image files can be drag-and-dropped on the layers area to be added as image layers
  • New "Lazy Mouse" smoothing option in the Brush, Eraser, Smudge and Clone tools
  • New "Spray" and "Connect" brushes in the Brush and Eraser tools. "Connect" is based on ideas from the harmony project
  • Guides (in the View menu)
  • More brushes have settings
  • New filters: "Striped Halftone", "Concentric Halftone", "Render Grid", "Checker Pattern"
  • New options for the "Channel Mixer", "Slice" filters
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.1.0 (Jun 18, 2018)

  • Rotation in text layers
  • Opening and saving TIFF files when running on Java 9+
  • Progressive JPEG export option
  • Progress bar in the status bar while opening and saving large files
  • Faster previews and progress bar in the open dialog
  • Stroke length variability and mixed colors in Auto Paint
  • Zoom improvements: fit width/height, and exact Navigator zooming with right-click
  • New settings for the "Focus", "Magnify", "Flashlight", "Turbulent Distortion", "Glass Tiles", "Marble", "Smear", "Posterize", "Starburst" filters, new "Color Threshold" filter
  • "Clicked Pixel" fill and "Action" setting in the Paint Bucket Tool
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements
  • Improvements to the Crop Tool:
  • Precise width and height controls for cropping
  • The crop area can be dragged as a whole with the mouse after the handles appear
  • Holding down the Shift key keeps the aspect ratio while dragging
  • Composition guides in the crop rectangle (rule of thirds, golden sections, diagonal lines)
  • The crop selection can be accepted by double-clicking inside it

New in Pixelitor 4.0.2 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Polygonal selection
  • Duplicate image
  • Rubylith mask view mode
  • Color palette, color variations
  • Color history
  • Copy/paste colors
  • Shapes Tool: more gradient fill types
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 4.0.1 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • Navigator window.
  • Mask from Color Range.
  • Thumbnail image size in Settings.
  • Selection edges can be hidden.
  • New Filters "Marble" and "Morphology".
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements.

New in Pixelitor 4.0.0 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • Layer masks.
  • Text layers.
  • Most filters show a progress bar in the status bar if they need more than 0.2 seconds.
  • Zoom control in the status bar.
  • File reload.
  • History dialog.
  • Transform settings for all Render/Shapes filters.
  • A few filters became faster. "Box Blur" became just as fast as "Fast Blur", so "Fast Blur" was removed.
  • On Mac the Command key is used in the menu keyboard shortcuts (instead of Control).
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements.

New in Pixelitor 3.1.4 (Jan 23, 2016)

  • Auto Paint
  • New filters: "Flashlight", "Focus", "Invert Transparency", "Fractal Tree", "Mystic Rose", "Lissajous Curve", "Spirograph", "Flower of Life"
  • After resize, flip, rotate, crop, the selection is also resized, flipped, rotated, cropped (instead of deselecting)
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.3 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Layers have thumbnail images
  • Shapes Tool: transparent fill option
  • "Enlarge canvas" menu
  • Kerning, tracking and ligatures support for text
  • Improved performance for the "Rays", "Oil Painting", "Drop Shadow" filters
  • The Move, Clone Stamp and Color Picker tools can use the right-mouse as an alternative to Alt-mouse (so that Linux users don't have to reconfigure their window managers)
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 3.1.2 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • "Keyboard nudging": in the move, crop and selection tools the arrow keys move things one pixel, and shift-arrow keys move things ten pixels.
  • New "Modify" menu under Selection that can expand/contract a selection or create a new selection around the selection border
  • New "Voronoi Diagram" and "Weave" filters
  • The angle, spiral and diamond gradients are anti-aliased
  • The anti-aliasing of the one-pixel brush can be configured in the brush settings
  • The Windows installer and the jar file are digitally signed
  • Minor bug fixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.1 (Jun 11, 2015)

  • Clone Tool: new scale, rotate and mirror options
  • Smudge Tool: soft brush option
  • Pixel grid is disabled by default (see View/Show Pixel Grid)
  • More angle settings for shape brushes
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.0 (May 20, 2015)

  • New tool: Smudge
  • Clone Tool: soft brush option
  • "Random Filter" maintains history, and has "Back" and "Forward" buttons to navigate it
  • A generic "Shape" brush type (instead of the "Heart" brush), with settings
  • New filter: "Channel to Transparency"
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 3.0.1 (Apr 16, 2015)

  • Clone Tool: "Aligned" and "Sample All Layers" options
  • Pixel grid is shown if the zooming is 1600% or higher
  • Button for duplicating layers
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 3.0.0 (Mar 27, 2015)

  • Starting with this version, Pixelitor requires Java 8 or newer
  • New Clone Tool
  • "Ping pong" option for both the layer-based and tweening animations
  • Batch processing: apply a filter to all images in a folder
  • Reseed parameter for the "Add Noise", "Brushed Metal", "Smear" filters
  • "Show Original" option for "Levels"
  • "Randomize and Normalize" button for "Channel Mixer"
  • "One Pixel" Brush (like the pencil tool in other programs, but also available for Eraser Tool)
  • "Central 3" mirror option for Brush Tool and Erase Tool
  • "Stroke with Current Brush/Eraser" in Selection Tool considers the mirror setting of brush/erase
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.3.0 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Tweening animation export
  • New "2D Transitions" filter with more than 30 transitions
  • Layers can be reordered by dragging
  • New meta-filter "Random Filter"
  • "Rotate" and "Reseed" parameters for "Starburst"
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.2.1 (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Image centered in the internal window
  • "Allow Growing" option for the Crop Tool
  • More zoom levels and "Ctrl + mouse wheel" zooming
  • New "Underwater" filter
  • The "Pinch, Bulge, Twirl" and "Swirl" filters were unified into one filter
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.2.0 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • Pixelitor can now open and save files in the OpenRaster format - layered images can be transferred to/from other editors such as Gimp, Krita, Paint.net, etc.
  • Animated GIF export (the frames of the animation are based on the layers)
  • Performance improvements and new "Reseed" button for the "Crystallize", "Pointillize", "Cells" filters
  • New "Sepia" filter (contributed by Daniel Wreczycki)
  • Performance improvements for the "Color Wheel" filter
  • A new "Random Star" shape in the Shapes Tool

New in Pixelitor 2.1.4 (Nov 3, 2014)

  • Performance improvements for the "Clouds", "Value Noise", "Caustics", "Wood" filters
  • New parameter for the "Threshold" filter
  • Fixed a bug that led to "out of memory" errors under certain conditions, so you should upgrade

New in Pixelitor 2.1.3 (Nov 3, 2014)

  • New filters: "Angular Waves", "Radial Waves", "Polar Glass Tiles", "Slice"
  • New or improved parameters for the "Pinch, Bulge, Twirl", "Swirl", "Kaleidoscope", "Polar Coordinates", "Glass Tiles", "Waves" filters
  • All filters with an "Edge Action" parameter now also have the "Mirror" option for it
  • Performance improvements for the "Crystallize", "Pointillize", "Cells", "Glint", "Glow", "Sparkle", "Brushed Metal", "Frosted Glass", "Canny Edge Detector" filters
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.1.2 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Many filters became faster due to the usage of the Jafama library
  • Some other filters are faster because they can use multiple processor cores
  • The "Add Noise" filter has a "Saturation" option
  • The "Stamp" filter has a "Blur Method" option
  • Menus and keyboard shortcuts for "Fit on Screen" and "Actual Pixels"
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.1.1 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • "Check for Update" functionality (in the Help menu)
  • "Hand Tool"-like behavior in the "Save Optimized JPEG" dialog
  • Some filters have better default settings for large images
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.1.0 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Brush engine improvements, the new "Heart" brush is an example of angle-aware brush
  • New zoom tool
  • More zoom levels
  • Smaller tool buttons
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.0.0 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • New crop tool
  • 18 filters are much faster (they use all the CPU cores)
  • More filters have a "show original" option
  • There are some new filters like "Little Planet", "Swirl", "Perspective", "Tritone", "Color Halftone", "Dither"
  • Bugfixes